31Vessel monitoring system for Bass Strait area

31 Vessel monitoring system for Bass Strait area

(1)  In this rule –

designated port means any one or more of the following:

(a) Beauty Point;

(b) Bridport;

(c) Burnie;

(d) Devonport;

(e) George Town;

(f) Killiecrankie on Flinders Island;

(g) Lady Barron;

(h) Low Head;

(i) North East River;

(j) Port Sorell;

(k) Sisters Beach;

(ka) [Rule 31 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2019, No. 63, Applied:01 Jan 2020] Smithton;

(kb) [Rule 31 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2019, No. 63, Applied:01 Jan 2020] Stanley;

(l) Tam O'Shanter Bay;

(la) [Rule 31 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2019, No. 63, Applied:01 Jan 2020] Woolnorth Anchorage;

(m) Wynyard;

(n) the area within a radius of 50 metres on the landward side from the high-tide mark closest to the point of launching or retrieving a fishing vessel from anywhere on Flinders Island.

(2)  The holder of a fishing licence (abalone dive) must not undertake a fishing trip on a fishing vessel during which he or she takes, or intends to take, blacklip abalone in the Bass Strait area unless that vessel is –

(a) fitted with a vessel monitoring system; or

(b) a vessel that departs from and returns to a designated port; or

(c) transported by, and operates from, a mother boat where that operation includes –